On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. <hs.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > > On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working > :) > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >> > >> I didn't have that in smb.conf file at all. I have included the > >> following lines in it and restarted samba: > >> hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/24 172.16.15.0/24 > >> hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 > >> > >> So no client from the wireless LAN (192.168.5.0/24) is allowed, and > only > >> from the wired LAN and VPN are allowed. > >> > >> I see a samba log file for the VPN client from which I am trying to > >> access the shared folder. Here are the last few lines(the log has lines > >> from earlier today as well which say similar stuff as below): > >> [2010/06/07 13:58:21, 1] smbd/service.c:1063(make_connection_snum) > >> 172.16.15.22 (172.16.15.22) connect to service SharedFolder initially > >> as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 8948) > >> [2010/06/07 13:58:46, 1] smbd/service.c:1240(close_cnum) > >> 172.16.15.22 (172.16.15.22) closed connection to service SharedFolder > >> > >> > >> Does this give any further clues? > > A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and > now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: > ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 > > > However, I can not only use "sudo smbmount ..." command to access the > samba share. The Network browser from Gnome still does not show the > share while a VPN client. The VPN client is a laptop running Ubuntu Karmic. >
You may need to have 2 servers to do it (one replicating network map from master). Read in samba howto: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2585378 Regards,
